Humph

It's got to the point where Sally gets more readers and more comments than I do.

I'd get her to do all the posts, but she's spent today sunbathing in the back garden, I'm told, and would only stir herself if I offered a lot of grub. Since she's just got down to her target weight (despite all the treat stealing and poo eating), this isn't an option, and you'll all have to go on putting up with grumpy old me.

(No, I'm not a doppelganger of Steve Haywood, his boat's called Justice, not Sanity Again. Draw your own conclusions.)

The good news is that Sheila and I both had a clean bill of health this morning from Mr Parmar, who has taken over the Alrewas Dental Practice from Dr Rana. This means that we'll be out of here tomorrow, heading for Sawley and then the Soar. I've set the route up on CanalPlanAC; enter 674_cp in the search box to see it. We don't guarantee to stop at the indicated places, mind, but it does give folks an idea of where we're likely to be when. In particular, we may well divert to Market Harborough for a few days.

This afternoon, we took a last stroll up to Fradley Junction for a while, and had an ice cream at the cafe; much better value than the pub, I might say.

BW have finally started repairing the broken wash wall by the water point, which gave us something to gaze at whilst slurping.

After today, therefore, the posts will at least have some serious boating to report, provided we stop somewhere with a decent 3 signal.